Will anyone sell me some Minox film frames?

I don't own a Minox 8X11 camera yet, and would like to determine if

this format is workable with my present scanning systems before

camera purchase. I would be willing to provide some film rolls for

exposure, but suspect that many of you may have some "garbage frames"

which you might be willing to sell in order to recover your sunk

costs.

I'm looking for a representative range of Minox films (color,B&W,

slide) with sufficient detail to allow reasonable inferences as to

the true field capabilities of the Minox system.

I am exploring the use of a 35mm "optical printer" scheme when used

in conjunction with an off-the-shelf Nikon 4000ED scanner and will

publish results once collected. Most of the tests will involve image

capture from 8mm Kodachrome 25 movie film, but the potential of the

Minox is also of great interest.

Since I believe that economic forces will preclude scanner

development for small guage film formats - this experiment may

represent the only real hope of bringing these formats into the

mainstream.

"Most of the tests will involve image capture from 8mm Kodachrome 25 movie film"

First thing to do is get a couple of frames of this stuff blown up big. I did this once upon a time, using two lenses with macro coupler, if I remember right. This was on old movie film, maybe 30 years old at the time, typical home movies.

What I found was that the movies looked pretty good when projected at speed. But they look good because most of the scratches and blurriness simply aren't visible when the film is running, and being shown through a projector. But when you take a single frame and blow it up, you find that those 40-year old movie cameras weren't necessarily all that sharp to begin with, and there can be no end of scratches and crud that you'd never notice when projecting. It's hard to get a single "perfect" frame to enlarge. If you just need a photo of grandma or something, you can get it, but it won't look like a normal 35mm shot.

Anyway, good luck on the project, but definitely take a good look at the photo quality on those little pictures before investing too much time in scanning/ enlarging.